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cruiscin_lan) wrote2009-05-09 09:52 am
cruiscin_lan) wrote2009-05-09 09:52 am
Post about books.
I'm a voracious reader, and so I'm going to talk about books for a little while now. You know how much of a bookworm I am? On Wednesday I picked up Vonnegut's The Sirens of Titan at the library in the morning and returned it that afternoon when I finished it. The only thing that keeps me from reading more is that it's impossible to read and drive at the same time.
I often go on what I call "author binges" where I go to the library and get out everything they have that a particular author has written, even if it means straddling genres (fiction and nonfiction, fantasy and sci-fi, etc.). Recent author binges have included a slew of women authors, particularly Alice Munro, Joyce Carol Oates, and Bharati Mukherjee, as well as J. M. Coetzee and David Sedaris (for funsies). I seem to be shifting into a more modern/post-modern science fiction theme, since I checked out stacks of Vonnegut and C. S. Lewis yesterday.
Reading right now: The Master of Petersburgh by J. M. Coetzee. I'm nearly done with it now and then I'll have to figure out what I'd like to start next. I think it's seriously affecting my writing, because whatever I set down is in the present tense.
One book I always carry with me is Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities, because even in translation it's the most beautiful prose I've ever read.
What are your favorite books? What are you reading? What would you recommend?
I often go on what I call "author binges" where I go to the library and get out everything they have that a particular author has written, even if it means straddling genres (fiction and nonfiction, fantasy and sci-fi, etc.). Recent author binges have included a slew of women authors, particularly Alice Munro, Joyce Carol Oates, and Bharati Mukherjee, as well as J. M. Coetzee and David Sedaris (for funsies). I seem to be shifting into a more modern/post-modern science fiction theme, since I checked out stacks of Vonnegut and C. S. Lewis yesterday.
Reading right now: The Master of Petersburgh by J. M. Coetzee. I'm nearly done with it now and then I'll have to figure out what I'd like to start next. I think it's seriously affecting my writing, because whatever I set down is in the present tense.
One book I always carry with me is Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities, because even in translation it's the most beautiful prose I've ever read.
What are your favorite books? What are you reading? What would you recommend?
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1. On the Road, by Jack Kerouac
2. Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand
3. It, by Stephen King
4. The Color Purple, by Alice Walker
5. Quicksilver: The Baroque Cycle, vol. 1 by Neal Stephenson
Right now I'm reading Serenity Found: More Unauthorized Essays on Joss Whedon's Firefly Universe edited by Jane Espenson and it's making me want to committ violence, so I don't know how long I'm going to be hanging in there with it.
I read Cosmicomics and If On a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino the same summer and I don't think I've ever been the same.
Authors I recommend: Neal Stephenson, Michael Chabon; even if you've read other things by Stephen King, you owe it to yourself to read The Dark Tower series; Christopher Moore for laugh out loud funny; Jasper Fforde for laugh out loud funny AND metafiction. I could go on and on.
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Right now I'm reading Serenity Found: More Unauthorized Essays on Joss Whedon's Firefly Universe edited by Jane Espenson and it's making me want to committ violence, so I don't know how long I'm going to be hanging in there with it.
I have the first one but I never managed to slog my way through all the essays. Some were easier to read, some were more interesting, and some just plain sucked.
I love Michael Chabon and Christopher Moore but I'm only just barely familiar with the other authors you mentioned